On December 8th, 2016, we surrounded Sally Dunne with words of love and farewell as we honored her time serving as the main NGO Representative for the Loretto Community at the United Nations. The room was packed with barely any room to stand or sit, a true testament to the love and re

I think it’s fair to say that the Loretto Community carries a strong passion for food justice, migrant rights, the envirnoment, gender equity, and more. Amazingly, our advocacy work here at the United Nations covers all of those areas. Luckily for me, I work under an incr

On the evening of September 28th, the US Mission to the United Nations and the U.K. Mission to the United Nations hosted a screening of the compelling, short documentary, “White Helmets.” In short, the documentary, set in Aleppo, Syria in early 2016, highlights the lives o

In mid October, many United Nations NGO representatives converged on Istanbul, Turkey for the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD). The forum, which began in 2007, aims to create a space for governments to engage with each other and with representatives of civil society i